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Wednesday, July 12, 2000 - North Shore News - 29

GOOD OM THE GRID

Three North Shore players were recognized for their effort at

A delegation from Chiba City. Japan was scheduled to drop by the
Unison Way martial arts dojo Tuesday in North Vancouver. Unison
Way's Daniel Lo was looking forward to showing the guests from
North Vancouver City’s sister city. including deputy mayor tnaba,
how his dojo’s teachers and students practise the Japanese mar-
tial art, known as the “way of the empty hand.”

the annual five-day, 16th annual Western Canadian All-Star
Football Camp last week at Simon Fraser University.
Defensive back Blake Santord and running back Matt George
(both of Carson Graham) and Handsworth quarte:uack
Braydon Cook took home trophies. The camp is run by North
Vancouver's Larry Reda.

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NV triathlete
wins in Toronto

NORTH Vancouver’s Olympic-bound
triathlete Carol Montgomery was victorious
on the Toronto stop of the World Cup

erek Reed

N. Shore traif run an
international event

triathlon tour Saturday.

Montgomery took the women's division in one

“hour, 56.20 minutes.

Montgomery swam 1.5 kilometres in 19 minutes and
16 seconds and biked 40 kilometres in 1:02.51. She
dominated the fina’ leg, a 10 km run, in
time was almost nwo minutes faster than the next fastest
running time in the world-class field.

Montgomery trailed early to Sharon Donnelly,
another Olympic-bound Canadian. Donnelly finished

second in 1:57.37.

Montgomery will be competing: at the 2000
Olvmpics in Sydney, Australia, Sept. 15 to Ocr. 1.

— Bob Mackin

Young NV golfer
qualifies for worlds

Sports Reporter
bmackin@nsnews.com
MATTHEW Kerr of
North Vancouver is
going to the world
junior golf champi-
onship.
‘Kerr, 17, shot 71 and
74 for a two-round total of
_. 145 Friday and Sarurday at
‘the par-71 Predator Ridge
.Golt Course in Vernon. His
score placed him in a third
place tie with Zac

Hildebrand of -

Summerland. .
Chris Baryla of Vernon
shot 143 to win the tour-
nament.
Chris Ellison of West

Vancouver was tied for
27th (78-81=159),

The top five players
qualified for the 33rd
Junior World
Championships in San
Diego July 17-21. The
tournament is a preview of
the future of men’s golf.
Tiger Woods won his age
division five years in a row
at the juniors.

Kerr has a golf scholar-
ship to study and play at
Boise State University in
Idaho this fall. He is a
member of Marine Drive
Golf Ciub in Vancouver.

Kerr’s challenge this
week is the B.C. Junior
Championship, — which
started Tuesday in Williams
Lake.

NEWS photo Julie Iverson

DEREK Reed of Sudbury, Ont. successfully defended his title in
Saturday's 12th annual Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run. Reed
ran 48.3 kilometres from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove in five hours, .
13.55 minutes.

Bob Mackin

Sports Reporter
bmackin@nsnews.com

DEREK did it again.

Sudbury, Ontario’s Derek Reed, last
year’s champion, led the 12th annual
Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run
from start to finish Saturday, winning in a
time of five hours, 13.55 minutes.

Reed was among an international field
of 173 ultra marathoners from North
America and Europe who tackled the
48.3-kilometre race. A record 158 people
finished.

The epic foot race across the North
Shore begari at 6 a.m. at the Eagle Ridge
exit near Horseshoe Bay. The finish line
was in Deep Cove’s Panorama Park.
Runners had a 10-hour time limic.

West Vancouver's Arlene Schieven, a
Knee Knacker rookie, won the women’s
category in 6:27.21.

North Vancouver’s Neil Wakelin won
the veteran men’s division for runners
over 50 in 6:24.16. Patty Montgomery of
West Vancouver was third in the veteran °
women’s race with a time of 9:34.08.

First-timer Bruno Bagneres from
Grenoble, France challenged Reed for the
lead aad was only a minute behind for part

of the first half. Reed made a run for it in
the second half and won the men’s division
by 1] minutes over Bagneres (5:25.11).
Schieven, meanwhile, had a 10-
‘minute lead until halfvay and finished
just 41 seconds ahead of Vancouver’s
Jackie Trudeau .(6:28.12). » Alexandra
Watson of North Vancouver was 31 sec-
onds out of second place (6:28:43).

The race raised $3,000 for North
Shore Rescue. '

See North Shore Number Cruncher
on the following page for full results.

Commit to being fit rather than being thin

PLAYWRIGHT Neil
- Simon once stated that
' “The body of a young
woman is God’s great-
est achievement. Of .
course He could have
‘made it to last longer,
but you can’t have

everything.”

Now the man may indeed be a chauvinist
pig, but his comntent does illustrate the
incredible value our socicty places on a cer-
tain “look” that we have come to believe is
ideal in our image-driven culture.

Some years ago I was attending a business
dinner and an individual at our table sade a
derogatory remark about a heavy set female
who had just entered the restaurant.

I just couldn’t help myself, and suggested
to this toe rag that before passing judgment
on another person’s appearance, he should
take a garider in the mirror, where he may
notice his own double chin, swollen face and
hugely distended belly.

The issue is not whether the person offer-
ing the insult was also overweight, rather it is
about the can of goods we’ve been seld in
believing that there is only one possible way

to look that can be consid-
ered ideal. Or even perceived
as being physically healthy.
From a health point of view
(which is hopefully high on
most people’s list of priori-
ties), many still equate thin-
ness with health and fat with
lack of same. Yet, recent
medical studies are
unearthing interesting statis-
tics that may go a long way in refuting this
widely held belief.

The paradox seems undeniabie: We five in
a society where skinny reigns supreme.
According to Sport Medicine Journal, approx-
imately 70 million poor souls are trying to
lose weight at any one time in the U.S. and
many more are doing everything they can
Not to gain anymore. North Americans spend
over $30 billion a year to try and slim down,
yet on average are heavier now (read: fatter)
than at any time in our history.

According to data from the National
Health and Nutrition Surveys, the average
U.S. citizen consumes up to 200 more calo-
ries per day than just 10 years ago. If you do
the math it’s not hard to figure out the
problem. Up to 73,000 additional calories
that convert to around 20 pounds each and

every year. What really throws fuel on the
fire (and in the opinion of many experts is
the real issue) is that as « society we are less
active than ever and getting more sloth-like
by the day.

For the last 40 years or so, our society has
embraced dicting as a way of fife, and yet we
continue to get heavier. Something is wrong
with this picture!

Many epidemiological studies confirm
that mortality rates are higher among obese
men and women. However, physical inactivi-
ty is also disproportionately higher among
this same group. So, is the excess mortality
due to their fatness, or their lack of fitness?

A recent major study titled the Aerobics
Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS), which
was prepared by the Cooper Institute For
Aerobic Research of Dallas, offers some
encouraging findings: specifically that being
fit appears to be far more important than
being thin in terms of reducing death rates.
Or if you preter: fit people who are obese
have a death rate about one half that of unfit
people in the so-called normal weight range.

The bottom line here is that physical
activity as an integral part of one’s lifestyle is
a damn sight more important than trying to
get thin by using onc of the thousands of
diets out there, most of which are about as

useful as windshield-wipers on a submarine!

Further contirmation that activity is more
critical than diet can be seen when we look a
little further afield. It’s an interesting obser-
vation that in numcrous developing cultures
variety in food is very limited, and that by
our standards these diets would be consid-
ered quite inappropriate for healthy suste-
nance. Because these people tend to work
very hard as part of their normal lifestyle,
they show little or no signs of many of the
diseases of our so-called “advanced society.”
We, on the other hand, with all our high
tech development and incredible intelligence
are evolving as pathetic physical specimens
when compared. to almost any other living
creature. :

And if you are looking for a tonic to get
you jump-started, F have a homemade con-
coction that may help you get your foot out
the door.

Blend two cups of attitude with one quart
of commitment. Add one tablespoon of men-
tal toughness and half a cup of motivation.
Top it off with a dash of character, stir well
and simmer over a long period of time.

Cheers!

Shane Collins is a physical trainer, athletic
coach and marathon swimiaer, He is also a pro-
fessional speaker on sport and health. . 2

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